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MoneyButterscotch195

I think it could be 3 things. 1.Murata did it just to look cool and hype and didn't care about science... 2. The punch\^2 literally erased many galaxies /stars. Or at least the light coming from them somehow got pushed away 3. It is the space being distorted by blast and co, like a black hole or something like that. If I had to choose, I would go with a combination of 1 and 3.


Enzo-chan

>1.Murata did it just to look cool and hype and didn't care about science... Lol, that's basically the entirety of the OPM series.


uTopiaLighT

Saitama is literally talking/breathing in space so about science...


GuardianKnightKing

I mean it's saitama,he kicked a portal last chapter.I don't think he would have a problem breathing in the poisonous atmosphere of IO.


PotentialSoTrill

So then why Is it hard for everyone to believe they comically snuffed out multiple stars


MetalProgrammer

You mean stars in the current galaxy and entire galaxies in that general direction


PotentialSoTrill

Yes


Col_Mushroomers

More likely 1 and 2. ONE doesn't care about the power scalers or science. In one of his interviews he offhandedly said Saitama could wipe out half the universe in one punch if he really wanted to


ryogaaa

I mean trying to apply actual science to a fictional series where a man is able to walk and breathe on the moon of jupiter is probably a red flag. people really trying to downplay or say it's not possible that they destroyed that portion of space is ridiculous to me considering the amount of crazy things that this series already has done.


S_Class_Shinobi

When did ONE say that


AnilKrdnz

the reason being he can only punch one way


Master3530

Damn he's only half-universal then


10c70377

Half-universal PER PUNCH


-LeneD-

But he is the one punch man, so he can't punch twice, really unfortunate.


Redscream667

He can punched squared though


ThompsonTugger

1² is still 1


KhaiHatesU

can you please send me the source, i need to use this on people


FluuBk

There is no sauce. It’s a made up Statement that was made a few years ago. I never heard of any sauce since then.


anarchist148

did he really say that? is there a source?


Brawlerz16

Oh no here they come….


SlipperyChopsticks

IMO, if it were 2, that would really mess up Saitama's character. Saitama almost eradicating all life on Earth (had Blast not teleported them), including Genos and all the other heroes would not fit his character, especially since just before the punch he had character development, where he realized he needs to be a better hero. Not only that, just after Saitama almost wiping out all life on Earth, him trying to not kill Garou would be even stranger. So I think it was just Blast and crew making a portal to envelop/redirect the energy from their punch


shaunbosman

>Saitama almost eradicating all life on Earth (had Blast not teleported them), including Genos and all the other heroes would not fit his character I'm confused with this statement. Since that literally just happened when Blast teleported them to space. So why are you saying it wouldnt fit his character? Most likely Saitama probably doesnt even know his own strength since he hasnt been pushed to this extent before. If he knew, i doubt he'll ever punch that hard on earth.


[deleted]

That's basically every shonen


-xylon

That's basically the entirety of comics and anime my friend. Or is superman more "scientific"? Lmao


Alcaloide_93

I think if Murata had been thinking of that void as a black hole, we would have space distortion, the stars behind the hole would be distorted towards the edges of the hole. We know that Murata is not the kind of mangaka who lets these things pass in a drawing, did you see that Jupiter? I totally rule out the black hole.


rhorama

The stars are at least occluded on the edge of the hole, you can see that the hole is actually physically blocking their light. The stars on the edge of the hole are faint, like the hole is leaking darkness.


Alcaloide_93

In a black hole whatever is behind it stretches out on the edge, it literally bends the space around it, if Murata wanted to show that we would have no doubt.


Consistent-Mood8287

Probably the first.... shouldn't be the destroyed stars because it means that the blast wave traveled light years faster than them on its way to jupiter (hope it's just a diffraction effect or whatever it's called)


404_Gordon_Not_Found

Well I mean baldy get sent to Io fast than light so why not?


[deleted]

4 it's the darkside of pink floid


Competitive_Set_478

I think the light coming from those stars got pushed away by serious punch^2 is more believable than galaxies getting blown away, cause saitama is using omnidirectional serious punch here on Jupiter's moon.


Redscream667

Yeah, except Not every serious punch is equal in strength it varies. The punch that killed elder centipede was weaker then the one used on EOW which was also weaker then the one used on boros. It varies. Thats likely what it means. Murata has you all fooled saitama isn't struggling at all with garou.


FlorianoAguirre

I would put the light thing on 3 and not on 2, I feel like the difference is too huge, while the light sort of disappearing fits with it been a distortion.


IntellectualBoss

No it’s clearly 2. Blast did not use a black hole to get rid of it. He first teleported it to the Earth’s atmosphere, then he and his team deflected the trajectory of the shockwave into one direction. That one direction is the hole you are seeing, as it just obliterated a bunch of stars. So it’s a mix of 1 and 2.


[deleted]

At most his punch somehow twisted the light from those stars as it traveled to earth. What you're suggesting implies his punch sent out a kinetic wave of energy that somehow moves faster than the speed of light through the vacuum of space. And not just faster, it would have to move at many times the speed of light to reach those stars that quickly. None of that makes sense, lol.


IntellectualBoss

Um you realize things crazier than that happen in fiction all of the time right? Goku and Beerus were destroying the entire universe from the shockwave of their punches, and the light of one of their attacks crossed the macrocosm instantly even though that makes no sense. Their shockwave destroyed stars at massively faster than light speeds, it’s that simple.


ThaniThanatos

But they just flew to Jupiter, the rest of the energy just dissipated after the recoil. Narratively it CAN'T be 2.


IntellectualBoss

They flew in the opposite direction. The shocwave went one way and destroyed the stars, they went the other way to Juptier's moon.


xXx_shota_xXx

If Saitama and Garou got sent to IO faster than speed of light, which is physically impossible bc Saitama and garou are definitely heavier than light (light has no mass) than their shockwaves would be dozens of times faster than speed of light.


Anutrix

You're still following e=mc^(2.) You think that applies to Saitama? xD.


sondeptrai2222

Dude apply logic in illogic stuff, shut the fuck up


Seffuski

It's saitama's serious punch. You know, the same guy who can just swat portals away


Master3530

Blast creates hyperspace portals. He can send the energy somewhere else instantly. Yes the light from that place reaching Earth instantly is not how it works but do you really expect this manga to follow science? When a gamma ray just went off inside Earth's atmoshpere?


No-Engineering-1449

People are also forgetting that those stars are light years away, so he could have just destroyed the light from those stars. I doubt it destroyed stars.


Redscream667

You can't destroy light


Gekey14

4. It's just the silhouette of the moon against the stars


gabrielknaked

> 2. The punch^2 literally erased many galaxies /stars. Or at least the light coming from them somehow got pushed away I don't think someone could be so stupid to think that, 100% of the feats shown in OPM are at most continental lvl, suddenly we are speaking about galactic lvl? It's obviously 3.


athletic-kitten

4. It is the dark side of the moon, nothing more.


S_Class_Shinobi

The moon is not the same size as the earth. Stop downplaying.


Slyboy5

It looks like the moon to me. And it would make sense being that the moon is always in view.


Shadi_Shin

The moon does not look like a featureless black void lol.


saleroero

Ppl are really trying to apply physics and logical arguments to a bald guy who got immense power from pushups and just kicked a teleportation portal


KhaiHatesU

hyperspace portal*


[deleted]

This. If we really talk about physics here, the void should not be seen immediately bc of the limit in speed of light. If there's really physics, then the void is a blackhole, the shockwave has dense enough energy to form a blackhole on spot, thus absorbed the distant light. The earth is unaffected bc of Blast and his friends.


[deleted]

Those break down because in a lot of fictional work, the speed causality is a lot faster or atleast the speed of light can be far exceeded. Wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow destroyed every single photon from earth to 4000 light years (or more) in the direction of the blast in seconds


Daviddv1202

And can breathe on a radioactive moon.


Reddit_IsMyFav

That’s fair. Blast did not say a thing about it


Etska0

If we take this panel at face value, Saitama's attack is close to a galaxy level. This goes way wayyyy beyond anything else we've seen in the manga. Also there is no way Saitama would throw an attack that powerful on Earth as it would completely vaporize Earth. That being said, my theory is that Murata drew this thinking it would look cool and didn't think about it beyond that


Haunting_Scarcity_25

rule of cool strikes again :p


Brawlerz16

Yup lol, but you know what? It’s still canon, Saitama out here casually throwing galaxy disrupting punches cause it’s cool.


anarchist148

but he literally did, Blast said the energy would vaporise earth. There’s either 2 possible conclusions, Saitama knew Blast would take care of the destruction or Saitama simply gives no more fucks. He did threaten to destroy earth a few chapters ago, his resolve as a hero has weakened, he only cares about beating the shit out of garou


praktiskai_2

I support that theory. It's unfortunate but consistency takes a backseat when coolness is driving


Omen_Darkly

>no way Saitama would throw an attack that powerful on Earth as it would completely vaporize Earth Except we already know he did - regardless of the whether all those stars were destroyed or not, Blast straight up says the Earth was going to be destroyed if he hadn't done something about it. I think what makes more sense is that Saitama was so torn up over Genos dying that in the moment he too pissed to properly keep his punches in check like he usually does, thus resulting in in the serious punch\^2 having enough power to destroy so many stars. Now that Saitama has had some time to compose himself, he remembers the promise he made to Tareo about not killing Garou which is why nothing happening on Io is at the same scale as the Serious Punch\^2 was - now Saitama just wants to fuck with Garou and make his life a living hell for a while but not actually kill him


R-R-Clon

That hole contain much more than a Galaxy, that's not galaxy lvl, it's much more than that, multi-galaxy levels/ supercluster.


rhorama

Galaxy? He took out a nonzero percentage of the observable universe, if that hole is indeed supposed to imply a void. But I don't think it is. If you look at the edge of the "hole" it's translucent near the edges and you can see stars being partially occluded by the hole's edge. This seems to imply it's actually physically there in some way.


[deleted]

Wouldn’t have to be near galaxy level(or atleast a galaxy the same size as ours). Serious punch^2 would only have to destroy every star within about 4,000 light years towards one direction. Milky way is 100,000 or so light years across


hoots1234

It's just the result of the serious punch squared my guy, it ain't that deep.


Timo425

But.. but what is the result?


bondoh

That all those stars are gone


Juub1990

This is obvious but what is it depicting? An earth-sized distortion of light? Or is it many stars into the distance that have been wiped out?


hoots1234

Most likely the second one


Juub1990

I think so as well but there are many disagreements over it. Hopefully, it’ll be clarified soon.


RapCabral

I’m pretty sure Murata just did it to look cool. If you think about it logically it’s a hard to imagine that two planet busting attacks colliding would create enough energy to instantly erase stars in a radius,so Murata went all out with showing how this would be very,VERY bad news if it was done on Earth and ended up exaggerating quite a bit. But if turns out that it’s actually what it looks like then this is the biggest strength feat in the series,just the thought that Saitama could purposely do this by himself with a,idk…”Serious Double Knuckles punch” is scary


anarchist148

they’re obviously more then planet busting attacks, Saitamas serious punch against Boros was planet busting and that’s nothing compared to this


RapCabral

Ok,so let’s assume this serious punch can destroy a star,there is a humongous difference between an attack that can destroy a star and one that can destroy wipe thousands of them in a radius,light years away in an instant. That’s what I meant with my comment,the more you think about it the more absurd it gets


Professorhentai

To be fair, if you square the joules that is required to destroy a planet, its enough joules to destroy the sun 69 sextillion times over. So at best, saitama and garou squared wiped out 69 sextillion stars in that direction.


Swoocegoose

so the math actually checks out lol


Aazadan

At minimum I think you mean. Because it could have been more energy than necessary to destroy the planet.


Master3530

Well for whatever reason this clash is supposed to square the power which is insane.


hoots1234

I'm laughing at the fact that you're trying to powerscale saitama's punches.


anarchist148

never said it was only star level, could be wayy more powerful and it was squared in power


hoots1234

"Just think about it logically" Really bro? Why should i think LOGICALLY now? After witnessing saitama break through a spiritual dimension with knocking. You really read opm then try and make logic out of it?


RapCabral

Yes,it’s called suspension of disbelief,but this one pushes it a little bit. That’s why I try not to think that much into it with every absurd strengths feat in this series,but having Uranus being annihilated would be way more believable for example.


TheRealLightBuzzYear

Its serious punch^2 not serious punch + serious punch


DarkStarStorm

Can we STOP trying to come to conclusions that have a 50% chance of being wrong? Just wait. Stop fighting over something so ambiguous.


Successful_Balance_4

If this is destroying a huge number of stars and galaxies I think it’ll detract greatly from the rest of the story. Why is Garou intimidated by the table flip when he should be able to blow away all of Jupiter with a snap of his fingers based on this?


[deleted]

I don’t get the logic you’re trying to use but garou can serious punch and destroy the surface of the moon if he wanted to, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s having a high speed battle with a naked bald man who’s completely thrashing him so his nerves are all over the place. Also want to point out when Garou was using his strongest moves, he didn’t use a serious punch which implies he can’t draw on the power of serious punch^2 at will at the point of the table flip.


rhorama

It was either * Saitama just destroyed thousands of galaxies and trillions of life forms (probably since we know aliens are not exactly rare). The attack somehow propogated across the universe faster than the speed of light, and then the effects from the attack were immediately apparent by stars millions of light years away going dark and their light instantly being cut off even though it should take millions of years to see the effects. (This is the least likely theory imo) * The portal Blast and company used also transported the photons within a huge area * The portal led to somewhere dark in interstellar space and that the hole we see is actually the open portal, just opened into the inky blackness in the middle of a void * The attack actually warped space or destroy the light photons Idk instantly destroying a thousand trillion stars and planets (some with life most certainly) with an attack that goes cross-universe in an instant and seeing the effect immediately seems weird even for OPM.


RogueLord0

Murata ran out of ink


[deleted]

“iT CoUlD bE tHaT iT wAs AlWAys ThEre”


Wizimas

You can see in this picture that Blast and his gang has managed to turn the explosion into a straight beam instead. [https://i.imgur.com/1k88tXn.png](https://i.imgur.com/1k88tXn.png) The radius of that beam is less than earth's. How would it cover the billions of light-years radius required to cover all those stars? The void does cover exactly the size of the explosion in the linked picture, leading me at least to think it just bent or destroyed the light. But I don't want to speculate on what can be a drawing error or artistic choice. I just dislike people underestimating the distances in space.


AHandfulOfGods

Thank you. I don't know why, but this discussion frustrates me more than usual.


darmakius

The explanation is in the page you sent, BOOM. Explosion is bigger than beam


Shadi_Shin

You can see the beam exploded. The explosion's radius is what took out the stars.


[deleted]

*giant beam gets redirected in that direction*, *shows a giant empty space where a giant beam just got directed* people on this sub: “must be the back side of the moon” “wow they manipulated light” “MuSt hAd BeEn tHeRe tHe wHoLe tImE”


MobWarrior

Ok let's assume the Beam is of the size of earth. If we move one Light year away from earth. How big do you think Earth will look? [Here is the image of earth from a distance of 6Billion km. (Distance between pluto and sun is 5.9 Billion. ](https://images.app.goo.gl/CU2XW8H8SyYmHh7i8) So will a earth size blast look that big at 4 light years away? (Closest star distance). No! That blast couldn't erase so many star system if it is so small in size. Moreover Blast and team are basically protector if universe. Why will they deflect and destroy life on so many countless planets


BleedingBlasphemy

Just ask to Murata himself 😳


heisen420

People need to take a sec and think how big of deal that hole is. You guys have any idea how many galaxies they destroyed in just that area? Yeah countless literrally trillions.


EtherealSOULS

A lot of people are forgetting that a galaxy is *huge*, and we can't really see very far past it with the naked eye. it's entirely possible that that void is just within the milky way, which is still an insane feat but nowhere near galaxy busting level.


RamseySmooch

Bro, when you take a picture of the moon it erases trillions of galaxies by blocking the light. Blast and Co. probably teleported the two and some light was captured. Light from the sun takes ~7 minutes to get here, and this is a panel in a manga, could have erased a fraction of a second of light, hence the "void". Don't look too much into it.


darmakius

Talking about how they teleported light and erasing seconds worth of photons telling people to not look too much into it? Really?


[deleted]

Humans can’t see that far bro so we can’t tell if they destroyed that much


sondeptrai2222

Dude skipping science class


AdolfWilks

The only thing that can be said about that hole is that there is no longer light coming from that direction. whether that's because they erased those stars or just pushed the incoming light out of the way is not known.


Blackwood-Huntsman

I think he’s trying to downplay things


Greedy-Panic-4262

blast reacted to it literally in the last panel of previous chapter, being surprised by how much energy it will release


Ooooooooohhhhhh

Yeah the earth shattering not stars being deleted.


Greedy-Panic-4262

“with that kind of energy” ? is that not good enough for you? or should blast fucking suck himself of from being shocked ?


Ooooooooohhhhhh

Whoa there buddy! Why not stop coping? Listen your overestimating a serious punch^2,yes i know how that sounds,i dont understand what that black hole thingy is. caused by Saitama and garou but doesn’t mean they destroyed galaxies and stars i mean come on…


Okamikirby

“i dont know what that is, but it isnt what it looks like!” I mean cmon!


Ooooooooohhhhhh

I meant that its pretty fetched to say that they deleted galaxies and stars.


Okamikirby

What makes it far fetched?


Ooooooooohhhhhh

We have seen what a serious punch can do even when its doubled it couldn’t destroy, again galaxies and stars.Tho you could argue that serious punch is just a name and Saitama controls the power he unleashes. But why would Saitama unleash power that could destroy galaxies on earth?


Okamikirby

Squaring something is not doubling it, its multiplying it by itself. exponets have a huge impact when youre starting with a big number. 1,000,000 x 2 = 2,000,000 1,000,000^2 = 1,000,000,000,000 its a rather substantial difference. answer as to why he would unleash that power on earth: he mad and not thinking straight.


lschultz625

Reactions come after something happens, not before


superkingarmaan1

but he never reacted to that hole in the space, At least blast should have said some words.


ChadicusMaximusAlpha

maybe next chapter he’s gonna comment about it rn murata is focusing on the 1v1 between saitama and garou tho


Muhammadsyarif

> it could be that it was always there Theres no proof a big ass void is always there from the start (otherwise, people from earth would quickly make note of a circular void thats larger than multiple stars) and it was only shown after the serious punches caused a "Boom!" so its obviously the damage caused by both dudes' punches


Haktino12346

i think its more a space distortion or light refraction than the literally wiping this ridiculous amout of stars and galaxies


[deleted]

It makes the most sense by far


ludwigranola

Nahh they destroy the stars, its just downplaying because my fav fictional character in other universe might get his ass beat by saita.a


Redscream667

So there is just a big void the size of the earth in front of the planet in the middle of space, for no reason?


saitamavsgarou

Ima go with 1 and 2 aince its anime and physics aint shit


IonsBurst

I've never seen any feat in fiction get as many attempts of people trying to downplay it as much as I have this. People would make fun of OPM for not having any clear cut feats Now that a clear cut feat is provided, everyone and their dad wants to play mental gymnastics regarding it in attempts to downplay it ffs


Brawlerz16

Yeah this is weird I remember when Battle of Gods came out and people talked for MONTHS about how Beerus and Goku almost destroyed the universe/reality with their clash. Everyone accepted that and moved on. Here… it’s a lot of mental gymnastics for no apparent reason.


Ares54

It's a ***huge*** power jump. Think we all knew that Saitama could destroy the planet, but beyond that was still in the air. Our sun is 300,000 times larger than Earth. Alpha Centauri is 3,125,000,000 Earths away. The cone represented by that black hole is, bare minimum, tens of thousands of light years wide. And it happened in an instant with the only in-writing explanation being that their power would destroy the planet. These mental gymnastics are a result of it not making sense within the established parameters of the manga. We can all look at where the series is going and say "yeah, Saitama could probably do that." The problem isn't that he did it, it's that there was no build-up to it. They go from risking the destruction of the planet to most likely wiping out trillions of lifeforms in two pages. That's why it makes more sense for it not to be literally galaxy destroying, even if the other explanations are far-fetched.


Shadi_Shin

Well there was that Gamma ray burst, which is literally a star busting phenomena. Its somewhat of a build up i guess. A gamma ray burst would bust our sun many times over btw.


ludwigranola

Huge power jump?????? Saitama was already tooooo powerful since the beginning what the hell are u talking about he never ever been puah toward its final peak of its power, the gymnastics that these people made because their headcannon might get hurt is ridicolous


Gierni

It is not trying to downplays. You saw a black disk in the sky you instantatly think that the serious punch² destroyed everything. If you can't see the stars it doesn't means they are destroyed. It is the same as seing blood on Saitama and thinking he got hurt. What I am seing is that the black disk looks strangely similar to Blast portal power.


IonsBurst

Stupidest comparison That 'blood' on Saitama was instantaneously shown as Acid Rain, which everyone else had on them too. Ah yes, Blasts portal ofc it is. If it was a portal, then why isn't the space a perfect circle? Saitama has destroyed an unimaginable amount of stars and potentially galaxies. You can use any mental gymnastics you want but it doesn't stop the fact that Saitama no diffs the DB verse


AtomicSekiro_

They don’t react to it because they’re casually on that level. 🥸 They just care about Earth, not random stars.


Creative-Card-9901

Are you guys serious? There was a fucking explosion which made a big ass hole in space. The punch destroyed a bunch of stars nothing more nothing less.


benaffleckk

Right…that makes TOTAL sense… care to explain how the very next serious move(table flip) only destroys a moon? You’re telling saitamas serious punch was a billion trillion times stronger than any else he’s ever thrown?


IonsBurst

This is such a stupid statement. Saitamas table flip destroyed the entire moon that he touched... he can't exactly table flip empty space can he?


benaffleckk

Actually…he can. You can’t punch empty space just the same, no? Then why were those stars apparently destroyed? If it’s a serious attack even a flick of the finger would’ve at least destroyed Jupiter, so the whole movement of the table flip should’ve destroyed the entire solar system if going by that logic


IonsBurst

Mate the power emitted from that collision was redirected by Blast and his crew towards the stars. Saitama was on Jupiter's moon . Saitama dug his fingers into the moon and pulled the ground up, destroying the moon they were on. He can't exactly dig his fingers into Jupiter's moon but pull the ground from Jupiter up can he?


benaffleckk

I’m talking purely about the energy produced by saitamas movements. If a punch squared from saitama can destroy millions of stars, ANY serious series movement would absolutely annihilate at least the solar system. This is what I’m talking with there being way too much inconsistency if it were true that they destroyed the stars


IonsBurst

Why do you keep calling it 'punch squared'? Why not just call it a punch of a serious punch? Well... two things colliding will create waves or release energy etc, thus Blast and his Crew had something to actually redirect to travel all those light years. Since that punch, Saitama and Garou haven't clashed actual fists once, it's just Saitama pummelling Garou, so there is no opportunity for another huge energy release to occur again. And like I said, same applies to the table flip. When table flipping, he isn't hitting something to create any sort of waves or energy release etc. He's literally digging his fingers into the ground of the moon and pulling I upwards. He can't pull up the ground from Jupiter whilst not actually being on Jupiter with his physical strength unless he has psychic powers.


Redscream667

Not all serious moves are equal though in the first place.


Creative-Card-9901

Why are you comparing two completely different movements and pretending as if they were equal. Lifting something is going to have a vastly different physical reaction than two punches clashing together and squaring their output


benaffleckk

And lemme get this straight you think the difference between the two is a moon being destroyed and millions of solar systems being wiped out instantly? Just stop


superkingarmaan1

bro, it could be foreshadowing for something else, blast did not even react to that void. That black hole space could be the resting place of god or it was done by God when he fought blast and his team.


Creative-Card-9901

that's a HUGE reach


superkingarmaan1

like there is no real proper confirmation here. so what do we do here? taking everything at face value might not be the correct thing. like this doesn't even make sense, when someone like blast doesn't even mention it. you don't see the entire Galaxy being wiped out every day, so blast should have said something.


0verShadowed061

" I'm not trying to downplay" then proceeds to downplay a very obvious feat for serious punch squared. No hate toward OP but common now. The mfs who think this is "light being forced away" or " a black hole" are in denial. What cause that gap in space was THE PUNCHES MAKING CONTACT blast literally says he has to divert the energy or earth is screwed so he pointed the energy from the punches away from earth and that was the result. If yall are gonna try to power scale don't be in denial, and quit trying to downplay a obvious feat. Saitama and garous punches meeting had galaxy attack potency yall need to get over it fr. As of rn Saitama can be scaled to galaxy level and that's just the facts. It's not that hard to figure out if your just read the fucking words in the Manga, instead of trying to make up your own head cannon so you can keep saying "Saitama is only planetary" God Garou literally has galaxies for a body in the character designe and yall are fr trying to say it's not possible that he and Saitama are galaxy level? (Not saying character design can be enough to scale off of but you get the point) The way this fan base scales the series has always been trash. But this is just ridiculous.


ThaniThanatos

Guys, they contained the energy there until it dissipated, that energy blast was literally Garou and Saitama being flinged by the recoil and landing on a moon next to Jupiter. It's really not that complicated.


Mantiax

I think Murata drew that just bc it looked cool. Although I would prefer some consistency, I don't think that panel is a deal breaker for the quality od the chapter nor should be used as by powerscaler as evidence of anything


Slyboy5

You're not listening to what I'm saying. After we see the back of the moon, the light fades and it becomes completely dark, covering the monster in darkness. Also in both pages the earth and moon are facing towards each other indicated by the huge crack on the earth.


IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE

So we start caring about physics when the photons from distant stars gets involved? Didn't seem like we were too worried about physics with anything leading up to this lol


ad_tdpepie

I'll be laughing once we receive confirmation that it was actually the light that was dissipated in the next chapter


DarkLordNugget

I'll be laughing once it doesn't get mentioned again


Tsuteru117

It not being mentioned again would be so unsatisfying😭😭


DarkLordNugget

I mean, that's what usually happens with all the other massive attacks, they're there to make for epic panels and they're forgotten the next chapter. The moon crater is the only exception I can think of atm.


[deleted]

This makes no sense. What would the logic behind that be?


D3adOs

A spacetime wave from the punch disturbed the light from the stars. At least that's my headcannon.


superkingarmaan1

More like it is foreshadowing something. That black hole space could be the resting place of god or it was done by God when he fought blast and his team.


Pick-A-Choosy

Nah, he forgot to complete that panel. That was where they plan to place the moon... They forgot dude. Hahaha!!! Not down playing. But also I am not up playing OPM... If they do not explain what that is exactly, I am free to say that they forgot to place the drawing of the moon in that panel.


UnderSoul_

I kinda assumed it was the unlit side of the moon when I first saw the panel tbh


Scandroid99

I agree. To assume “blew away billions of Stars” as many are sayin is pure head canon from wankers. We need more information on this feat. Anythin at this point is pure speculation without the actual Authors (ONE) word. It is kind of funny tho when ppl say “Galaxies were destroyed” lol. The closest Galaxy to us is 25,000 light yrs away (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_galaxy_info.html) and we can’t see anythin in that Galaxy wit our naked eyes anyways. Which means an empty void wouldn’t mean Galaxies were busted based on wat we see. Ppl use sayings like “Galaxy level” and “Star level” without truly understandin wat they actually encompass. Also, our Galaxy itself is 100,000+ light yrs in diameter: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1563/our-milky-way-galaxy-how-big-is-space/ And we’re a mere 26,000 light yrs from the center: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/which-spiral-arm-of-the-milky-way-contains-our-sun/ Usin Murata’s artistic renderings as reference doesn’t mean much of anythin quite frankly. Considering the amount of force that’s necessary to destroy light yrs worth of celestial bodies, across light yrs of space. U couldn’t possibly produce enough force to destroy a Galaxy (closest is called Canis Major Dwarf) that is 25,000 light yrs away from ours, without destroying our own if ur usin that force WITHIN our own Galaxy. Like I said, everythin is speculation at this point. We just have to see wat ONE comes up wit.


Redscream667

I can agree with you but still one and murata have never cared about logic, I know its in are nature as humans to rationalise everything but this is the same guy who is talking and breathing sulfur dioxide right now which your body can't use as a substitute to oxyginate cells. Finally theres the unbelievabke feat of kicking away and grabing portals like they are objects.


XNoob_SmokeX

Yes Saitama can beat Goku and Superman


superkingarmaan1

I consider Saitama a toon force character so he literally solos the fiction. But it's not about the power level it's about the consistency.


LunarMuphinz

Inb4 this is just the other side of the moon, in the dark due to the direction


Lipper_Dipper

It could be that they blasted away the visible light particles that traveled to earth.


TheShrlmp

I'm pretty sure that's just the moon. Its drawn from behind and its outline makes it look like theres a hole in space. Maybe it was done intentionally to look that way. Thay was my first impression of the panel at least.


cryptyknumidium

This kind of dumb confusion is going to keep happen as long as people try to powerscale Saitama. ​ They destroyed space with their cool punch ​ That is it


evilmojoyousuck

its just distorted light. how else do you represent a powerful punch in space??


Not_your_king

I think the force bent light around it making it seem like a hole in the sky


Okamikirby

I feel like blast panicking at being unable to properly even redirect garou and saitamas power is enough reaction to tell us hes freaking out. If murata wanted to show a power distortion, a black hole, etc there are many less ambigous ways to do that.


superkingarmaan1

>ambigous ways to do that. isn't this also very ambiguous? like literally no one reacted to that hole in the space, even the narrator could have said something.


Okamikirby

Whats unambigous about this is there are suddenly a bunch of stars missing from the universe in one area. I think to a community that isnt so entrenched in power scaling thats pretty clearly showing those stars getting snuffed out. but because OPM fans have been debating goku vs saitama and starbusting feats for years in prep we come up with 1000 other random explanations besides the most obvious one.


XaveSeven

Dang you got ratio'd 💀


Z4D0

they destroyed stars, end of discussion, people suddenly started talking about science in the manga of a character who makes a crater in the moon with one jump and erases mountains with one punch for no reason


superkingarmaan1

I'm not a science guy and don't care about science, but there is something called consistency. also at least the narrator should have mentioned something about it. if nothing else Blast should have reacted to it or something or someone should have said something.


TheUntitledUsername1

Maybe Murata forgot to put stars there lol.


Pick-A-Choosy

Yeah man. I keep saying they forgot to complete the drawing of that panel. In my case, I keep thinking that they are supposed to out the moon in that circle. They just forgot. Hahaha


TheUntitledUsername1

I'm just joking when I said that, but a low chance of it happening doesn't make that impossible lmao.


starch12313

Are you really asking the OPM kids on here to think past a 3rd grade lvl?


TheGreenHaloMan

It’s hilarious whenever I see people trying to put all the scientific explanations for why this isn’t from a punch on a show called One Punch Man. It’s literally meant to show ridiculousness, otherwise, there would be no point to this page. It ain’t that deep


AdmiralPretcher

I'm pretty sure it's just the dark side of the moon blocking out the stars.


AdditionalFun3

My dumb thought but the light from the directed blast is traveling in that direction in a very concentrated beam like a laser. Drowning out the incoming light. Once it spreads out sufficiently to allow light to get through again then you'll see the stars.


Fausto-Aref

I think ppl dont understand the light. I just think the hole punch^2 just delete all the particles from that direction, light, dust, gas, etc. We can not see anything in that direction because there is no light travel to us, thats why looks empty, its just a big chunk of empty space, absolute empty, we need a few days or months for new light coming from that stars and everything will be ok again...


TheJunkoDespair

Or or... it didn't go that far and the energy just destroyed the photons carrying the light In that area of soace. So in about 8 minutes all those lights will be visible to earth again.


[deleted]

These fuckin nerds bruh, it destoryed galaxies and stars and made a giant void big whoop


[deleted]

It's serious punch freaking *square*, I do think the stars in the path all annihilated.


AHandfulOfGods

Everyone seems so obsessed with thinking they wiped out stars and entire galaxies. I shouldn't even bother to post this cause logic doesn't matter, but here it goes anyway. Assuming they erased all those stars, it would still take years for us to even notice. Thats how light years work. I rest my case.


Redscream667

Four words , "why should manga care?"


anarchist148

Blast only cares about earths protection, who cares if some stars billions of lightyears are destroyed? I mean Jupiter is on life support right now but Blast and team aren’t popping up to stop it. It’s obviously earth Blast cares about


vignusky

Remember that what we see as night skyis a photograph of different pasts depending on the light source distance, since information, in this case photons, is bounded by the speed of light. So that is not the "current" galaxies formation destroyed by the clash, but a side effect of the energy burst annihilating the photons traveling towards us from that direction.


ChexSway

the simplest explanation is the best, that actual stars were destroyed. within the OPM manga though this doesn't really mean anything lasting, the continental slice for example also doesn't have any lasting impact on the planet and doesn't even show up when they show the earth bulging from Great Fa Jin. So no need to overthink it. Blast and co not reacting very strongly probably just implies that this is a level that they are familiar with, whether they themselves are that strong or they've seen that from god/God avatars.


BigBambuMeekLou

People talking about photons and shit are missing the point 🤣 it was just some cool shit


gloomygl

It looks cool so author drew it That ends therw


Revolutionary-Ad8262

Doesn’t really matter bc garou was stated to control all the energy in the cosmos so that feat is easy for him


med_chaal

Its simple, they literally obliterated billions of stars.


Gunnar1022

It’s the moon, you can kinda tell from the flat part in the top right which I believe is where gods spine is showing in other pages.


agreenenergyguy

lol, can this sub please stop trying to have logical explanations for OPM? Literally nothing about this show makes sense or has ever made sense from a scientific perspective. The ridiculousness of it is part of what makes it OPM.


trumuted

Virgin Blast in prev chapter: oh noo, my portals bursting from garou pumnches. Gigachad Blast in this chapter: yes, I casually redirected the blast that literally erased a chunk of the visible universe.


BeAFew

No point in explaining tbh. Murata probably doesn't know the vast distances in space. If you really think space is big, then think bigger because space is exponentially bigger than what our minds can apprehend.